Not fussed with trying to present himself as the bigger man in his feud with Paul Dacre, Richard Desmond has told the Daily Mail editor to “go fuck himself”.

Asked by The Guardian‘s Dan Sabbagh if his Express Newspapers would rejoin the Press Complaints Commission, an incandescent Desmond rejected the opportunity to make peace in no uncertain terms.

Desmond, who also owns Channel 5, said: “I’m not sitting there with Dacre… Dacre goes out slagging me off; he can go fuck himself. I’m not worried about statutory regulation. I’m regulated by Ofcom for TV. I’m happy with that.”

Desmond appears to have been particularly riled by Dacre’s recent comments to the Leveson inquiry, when he defended self-regulation by saying that “the Blair Government – in the risible belief that he’d turn the Express Labour – decided that Richard Desmond, the businessman who’d made his money from porn, was a fit and proper person to own a newspaper. And it was Ofcom, itself a statutory regulator, which recently judged Mr Desmond a fit person to buy Channel 5 – this after he’d quit the PCC, effectively holing self-regulation below the line.”

(Source: MediaGuardian)

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